"Kyle Sandilands and Tamara Jaber wish to acknowledge the past few months have been challenging due to their individual work demands which have required extensive periods of time apart," Hawkins told Seven News.

"[They are] committing to supporting one another and endeavouring to address their difficulties."

Jaber is currently promoting a new single and appearing on Dancing With The Stars.

Sandilands, who lost his job on Australian Idol after a string of controversies last year, spends much of his time in Los Angeles.

A Woman's Day report yesterday said the split had been an "open secret" amongst friends and quoted Sandilands as saying he and Tamara were "off".

Sandilands has been living in a hotel room at Star City Casino in Sydney while Jaber has been staying at the couple's lavish $1.9 million home in St Ives in Sydney's northern suburbs, the story claimed.